And this at a time where neither Congress nor the Supreme Court seem willing to provide checks and balances on the executive.
The checks they cashed in and now giddily look at their account balances.
To those that didn’t see that coming, I’m sorry. To those that did, I know you have the supplies to ride the storm, and I’ll see you on the other end of this. Hopefully it’s over reasonably soon and we can rebuild better.
If they declare martial law I think we should all go outside and violate it in overwhelming numbers.
The best action to take is everyone in unison not go to work. The wealthy NEED you more than you need them.
Yeah, good idea.
Better just do a general strike, if everyone (not realistic but a good chunk) stopped doing their thing it’d make those in charge get it. I don’t meant the Trump administration, whoever is really in charge and giving orders. Like anyone in the administration besides heritage foundation and project 2025 writer (to be fair not sole author) Russel Vought, he may have some real pull for sure.
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Been promoting the idea of exercising 1st and 2nd amendments to build villages and be harder to oppress.
People have been wholly uninterested. I have no idea what people expect to do when the gestapo comes for them, but now I’m just looking out for myself. This country is fucked.
Indeed, the Americans are weak and overworked compared to the pissed off French.
Yes, and it that weakness was engineered over the course of almost a century. We gots lotsa work to do.
Feds are already crawling all over the place, no more free press, supreme court is pocketed, congress has fucked off.
What would martial law do? Make a cerfuw or something?
that’s the next step for papers please…
Second amendment cucks are so hard rn
Those allies should be put on The List for arrest, investigation and imprisonment.
If they truly care about voter fraud, they should override Trump and ensure external election observers are present at all polling stations and throughout the counting.
If they truly want martial law until the election is confirmed, to ensure the election wasn’t ‘rigged’, they should invite a UN peace keeping force to administer it.
But, somehow, I suspect their motivations aren’t based on any concern for legality, justice or democracy.
This is Steve Bannon calling for it. He’s a true fascist through and through. He’s also a criminal
Of everyone in this administration, he is most likely to go to prison after Trump’s term. He deserves it, and he’s an easy target for the admin to scapegoat for everything
They should just skip the whole walk around the park and just give their supporters brown shirts, arm bands and some kind of blunt force weapon (with no restrictions) … and to keep them motivated in the evenings, get them to parade around with torches at night
It’s become a meme to ask Americans at what point they will use their supposed 2nd amendment rights to start shooting at magas. And it has become similarly a bit of a meme to laugh at the ignorant non-americans for suggesting it.
But let’s be real. When the magas are threatening to abolish your democracy, you yanks need to make a counter-threat of violence to keep it. It doesn’t even need to be “serious”. That drunk “we have guns too” lady is actually a fantastic start. But it needs to be followed up by more senior Democrats and I’m not talking about chuck schumer, just someone above “drunk candidate in Fayette county”. Someone needs to say that if the Republicans enact martial law there will be blood. Say it jokingly. Say it in wacky wink wink way. But fucking say it. Get your wackiest weirdo politician to actually put the gun on the table.
If you don’t, then at some point it becomes a matter whether you actually care about your democracy. Like, fuck, maybe you don’t.
If actual political office-holders were saying this, opposing office-holders should certainly respond. No need for office-holders to respond to every looney spouting nonsense on a street corner.
I’m against this nazi shit, and as an avid marksman and gun collector, I have a small arsenal at my disposal
Just takes a few conscientious people. Foreclose on soldiers homes. Kick their kids out of school. Refuse to insure their vehicles.
And since that’s absolute bullshit, we can expect our police and maybe even the military to step up and do the right thing, yeah? They’ll be on our side, right???
Traitors.
Trump isn’t running in the midterms; he’s supposed to not have a horse in the race.
Congress though? THEY could lose the midterms. Congess isn’t supposed to be a bunch of presidential yes men. Trump isn’t supposed to be the party leader.
“Supposed to” is how the US got into this mess in the first place. He and the GOP have broken so many norms that it doesn’t apply anymore.
These people are literally American Nazis.
Nazis actually took a lot of cues from us. Especially our treatment of Native Americans, African slaves, eugenics.
I suspect most of them are pushing for marshal law.
Probably pushing for marital law. Abolishment of it, that is.
Marsupial law. With deep pouches to put the bribes in. It’s already in place by the way.
Marshmallow law, anyone?
Martian Law! The Law of the Red Planet!
Last time Martial Law was declared across the entirety of the US was 1862, when Lincoln enacted it, but applied it to specified categories of people (rebels, and those aiding them). But this is straight up Nazi shit.
Who oversees the National Guard if (when) they declare the Democrats cheated (because that will be the orders they’ll be given, in no uncertain terms, on the quiet)?
Trump is no doubt sprouting a chubby little mushroom stalk at the idea.
What legal preventatives are available for the Democrats to stop this shitfuckery before it starts? It’s a grey area whether or not Trump needs Congress or the Senate’s approval to enact Martial Law, but it’s not really been taken to court, AFAIK, to test. Plus, he ignores them as if he’s forgotten they exist, anyway, pulling Executive Orders out of his arse as if they were on a roll of toilet paper he lost up there during a particularly energetic ‘Truth’ Social rant.
Australian here, BTW. So there’s a lot I don’t know about US politics. But I do know Martial Law wouldn’t be good for free and open elections.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/q6wUt
That site serves malware
I’ve heard this, but it loads completely fine, with no-script and no exceptions.
Is it just the capcha that does it?
No. The “service” alters pages (so not much of an archive) to include code that launches a DDoS attack against a blogger. As such it has been banned from Wikipedia.
Gyrovague doxed them years ago and they held a grudge.
It’s not right, but it’s also not entirely unexpected. I try not to use them, but all the alternatives seem to be dog shit slow.
Ok, I thought it was just the capcha. I knew about the blogger tho.
Thanks Internet friend.
Which blogger?
